CVE-2026-49417

CVE-2026-49417 is part of two memory-safety issues in FreeBSD’s sound(4) mmap path. The advisories describe: (1) dsp_mmap_single() could overflow when validating a requested mapping, allowing a mapping to extend past the audio buffer into kernel memory (CVE-2026-45258), and (2) the audio buffer b...

CVE-2026-49417 Multiple vulnerabilities in the sound(4) mmap path

Second, the audio buffer backing a mapping could be freed when the device was closed even though the mapping remained valid. The freed memory could then be reused elsewhere while still accessible through the stale mapping. The /dev/dsp device nodes are world-accessible by default. On a system wit...